I agree with nearly everything you said. I think the Producers are pushing the Military Wives by giving them the prime spot. If they weren't military wives, I doubt they would even made it to RCMH.

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Probably not, but remember, this is just as much a popularity contest as it is a talent competition.

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I would have loved to seen the Mitsi school of dancing move forward. They were so good. But they were in a stack semi-final. I am not sure how the producers determine the acts on each show, but it is a shame that, many times, some of the better acts go home only because they were on the wrong show.

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That's why there's a wild card round (and although they haven't said there will be one this year, note that they never announced it in advance in past seasons either, and Nick has always used terms like "leaving the show" and "going home" in the quarter-final rounds, only for acts to return for wild card week).

I hope they consider allowing some of the eliminated acts on the tour. I think they did this when the post-series show was limited to Vegas, but the last time there was a tour, I'm pretty sure it was limited to the ten Season 5 finalists.

Some really good acts got sent home, but that was mainly because there were a lot of good acts last night. It's a shame how it worked out as many of the acts that went home this week were much better than the ones that won last week.

i only care about the magic and caught the 'revealing' trick with the canes in the box, i'm assumign there are so many so that there's a 2nd person in that box and thats how they appear later on?

putting allllllllll those canes in was mindnumbingly boring

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That's probably one of the reasons why that trick (one of the variations of a trick called "Backstage with the Magician") isn't done very much. One of the main problems is getting the canes to go through the holes in the front of the box.

I can't say for sure how it was done, but if you ask me...

The cane box had a lookalike magician inside of it from the start; he was the one who went into the other box, and if you watch him change boxes, you will notice that he never shows his face to the people watching the trick. On the other hand, I do know where Nick was the entire time, but "that would be telling."

I thought Howard was a bit hard on Jim Meskimen, but that reminded me to look him up on IMdB. The first time I saw him on the show I thought I had seen him in lots of stuff as an actor. Sure enough he has a career going back 25 years and has been in a ton of shows. So I don't know where the line is as far as professionals go.

There wasn't time - they were already rolling the closing credits when the third vote was being cast. I don't think there would have been time to go through a fourth vote and the whole "America has voted" spiel.

Sadly I feel like the whole American Military Spouses Wives got through because of the whole USA USA thing. They werent that great and havent impressed me with any of their performances. Plus half of them are very pregnant. Probably be a quartet by the time finals rolls around.

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They have a slight advantage. There are 36 members, if I remember correctly. You can bet that all of their family and friends are voting for them. That's hundreds of people. A lot more than a single singer would automatically get.

Sorry if I said this already, but singing in Opera style must be the easiest skill on the planet. Is every other act an Opera singer? Take away the "I'm gay and everyone hates me" angle and most of them don't get past their first audition.

Misti dancers were 100% precise and fantastic. They are already a Vegas quality act and should have been a top 5 finishing act.

The singing wife's of enlisted soldiers are getting by on story alone. USA USA USA! Too bad they aren't judged on talent alone.

The teen boy and girl rock group should also have been put through. They have skill, a great look, and style. I expect them to return as wildcards.

It is sad that two weeks ago a ton of crap acts went up against each other and four of them had to go through, where this past week even the bad acts were better than the previous week's good ones. They really messed up the grouping.